Question

Rabbi, in the second book of the trilogy you write that tradition is not evidence for the truth of Judaism. But I didn’t understand—there is no greater evidence than that! We have a tradition that God revealed Himself to us, brought us out of Egypt, and gave us the Torah, and so on. Unless you are saying that we don’t know whether the tradition is true, or that one day a person got up in the morning and started passing on a story and everyone after him passed on the same thing, and so on. But my question is: assuming the tradition is indeed reliable, do you think it can serve as evidence for the existence of God on the one hand, and for the truth of Judaism on the other?